Specifically noble or royal women. Were there any instances of women attempting to refuse their marriage, or successfully doing so?

In the seventh day of March 1917, the British PM Lloyd George gave a speech, in which he said: "In northeastern portion of Ireland you have a population as hostile to Irish rule as the rest of the Ireland is to British rule...". But why? How did this strange situation come unto being?

Galileo was condemned by the church for his findings that contradicted conventional wisdom. I am interested in reading about more figures who were condemned by those in power for the creation of knowledge that challenged the status quo. Can you all help me identify similar figures and provide good sources to read about them? Thank you in advance.

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The NES was actually the Family Computer in Japan. Looking at computers from the 70s and 80s it seems there's a solid overlap between home computers and video game consoles.

When did these two become distinct products?

In a realistic and historical sense. For those that weren’t fresh out of basic training and thus had experienced combat before landing in France. What could the men of Captain Miller been doing?

I assume their “unit” of 8 or so men would have had to have been tied to a much larger company. After taking the beach and establishing a foothold in the area, Sgt. Horvath is seen collecting dirt from the different places he has been during his campaign. I know this sounds like I’ve answered my own question. But what I’m really asking is was the likelihood of heavy combat or worse conditions prior to this day a reality for these men? Men such as Miller and Horvath and the rest of their crew seem very comfortable giving and taking fire from the enemy whereas a lot of the other young men on the beach are visibly in complete shock.

I'm largely inspired by this passage in Maria Brosius's A History of Ancient Persia.

Following the Persian retreat from Europe after 479/8, an independent kingdom, the Odrysian kingdom, emerged in Thrace over the following decades. It is rewarding to study the range of artefacts from Thrace and to recognise that the Thracian court was modelled on that of the Achaemenid kings. Jugs, vessels, phialai and even rhyta were modelled on Achaemenid art, yet these objects were produced in local workshops by Greek or local craftsmen. Achaemenid Persia set the standard for the way Thracian kingship and court life were expressed, and this meant the adaptation of Achaemenid court art. As diplomatic links may well have continued after 479/8, Thracian association with the Achaemenid court will have been welcomed. At the same time, the Thracian kings and the nobility ensured that they impressed their own identity on their art. Like the Persian kings, the Odrysian kings used a system of gift‐giving and similarly created a court hierarchy through favour and privilege.

Reposting after several months since I didnt get any answers the last time I asked.

From Egyptians, Native Americans, and Many mythologies the idea of people turning into animals and committing evil.

I saw the idea of a dragon is believed to have sprouted all around the world at similar times because it was comprised of things humans feared. Fire, Flying creatures, and snakes. However, I don't see where the Skinwalker lore could originate from when it seems all over the world.

Most Indo-European religions are polytheistic and their gods even share similarities, however Zoroastrianism isn't. Is there any reason for that? Or is Zoroastrianism not linked to the PIE religion?

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When and why did Great Britain achieve this status of being ruler of the waves, and how instrumental was The Royal Navy in the overall "succes" and expansion of The British Empire in the 18th and 19th century?

I was wondering if anybody could give me a brief history of trash disposal before the modern era of trash pickup and landfills. I know that people didn’t make nearly the amount of trash that we do today, but surely they had things they needed to dispose of. What did they do with their trash?

I’ve seen very widely differing dates suggested for it. Also, the date that now seems most accepted is around 100 AD, but it only has 68% probability. And there also seem to be older artifacts there.. why are the older dates being discounted?

Of course 'dark age' is a rather problematic term as there are valid arguments made that life was perfectly fine for an average European during Europe's 'Dark Age' circa 500-1000 AD, however the timeline of great philosophers and artists does seem imply a particular lull period during this time after the Fall of Rome compared to Antiquity. Before the Fall of Rome, there was also the Bronze Age Collapse over a millennium prior, where again these great civilizations of the Mediterranean suddenly seem to have been snuffed out like flames.

Of course there are fringe theories suggesting that Western history is longer than it really is and that these dark ages are the result of inconsistent chronologies, but to the ultimate point of the question: did the great civilizations of the massive continent of Asia ever see similar instances of collapse? Where art and philosophy and even bureaucratic records just seem to have 'stopped' for centuries on end?

Modern wells can be 100s of feet deep. Were historic wells only really dug in areas where the water table was absurdly high, is the depiction of old wells in media just straight up bs, or did people have a way of digging that deep?

Hi there, I've been reading a lot about the 6th - 10th century British Isles and I'm trying to get into books about more specific topics. At the moment I'm having a lot of trouble finding any decent books on the Gaelic kingdom of Dál Riata. Does anyone out there have recommendations for any such books?

What is the difference between all these place names? They seem to almost be used interchangeably:

• Sumer
• Sumeria
• Babylon
• Babylonia
• Uruk
• Mesopotamia

I'm guessing one is the city, one is the country, and one is the state, or something like that?

Also does the Tower of Babel have anything to do with Gil's Babylonia? Does the Bible acknowledge EoG as cannon? Or is it just another case of the Bible writers stealing ideas like with Noah's Ark and Ziusudra?

Hi, all!

So, I've been doing a lot of research into the British peerage. I looked it up originally to clarify something in a story I'm writing and got sucked into it. Which, in turn, made it a much bigger part of the story lol. Anyway, I've reached a sort of block in my research. I know that in the UK (and in most places) the aristocracy was created on the basis of land, which is why the titles themselves can connected to that land. From what I understand those nobles can be referred to as "Title Last Name" or "Title Location" depending on the title name (at least in the UK, I think?).

To cut a long story short, it got me wondering if there are examples of systems of nobility that are not connected to land. Or maybe significant titles or bloodlines whose influence, again, isn't tied to land. If so, where does this take place? How did it come about? How does it work? And how do their titles and forms of address work? As well as any other information you'd like to impart upon me.

Thank you so much!

Much of the tension between Japan and the Allies was caused by the Japanese invasion of China. The US had a long island hopping campaign to get to the Japanese mainland, but why not just retake China and invade overland? Couldn't British controlled India have been a jumping off point for a land invasion? Was this strategy ever discussed by the allies?